Recent Works

Nominated for the Estonian Dance Awards 2025

Ouroboros is the mythological snake eating its own tail, often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclical renewal.

Estonian-Norwegian choreographers Külli Roosna and Kenneth Flak embark on a poetic journey with Indian-Belgian performing artist Rakesh Sukesh to explore the terrain of togetherness. Separately entangled, decisively confused and efficiently failing, they place their trust in a misunderstanding of life and each other in order to restore the balance and imbalance that keep them moving.

In the performance the dancers create personal and collective sanctuaries that help them shed the skins of worn out selves, and finally listen to the rain.

With Shelter Ouroboros Roosna and Flak continue their practice of creating interactive performance-ecosystems, where the dancers’ movements affect the sound and visual landscapes of the performance.

What does freedom mean when all is linked?
When the space is saturated by stories
asking me to follow
or to be enchanted.
Entering into the vortex of the self,
not knowing who or what will remain.

Nominated for the Estonian Theater Awards 2023

Singularity is a multimedia work for dance, interactive sound and visual elements. The performance is an attempt at autopoiesis, a self creating itself.

We define a singularity as the inner life's uniqueness and inaccessibility. As the peculiarity of all experience. As a space where all intentions and descriptions collapse, opening up for new qualities. As an alienation from what we think we know. As entering the zone.

The piece is inspired by the story of norse god Odin hanging from the tree of life for 9 days and 9 nights, sacrificing himself to himself in the search for knowledge, returning from the land of the dead with the technology of writing.

The performance is an opportunity to witness a dancer, an experiencer, a cyber-shaman, an interactive technology researcher, a storyteller, or an old friend — creating a space for making your own sense of what is happening within and around you.

Roosna & Flak deals with questions around the meaning of freedom and interconnectedness; how our perception of reality determines our sense-making and what we consider meaningful.

The piece is a part of Roosna & Flak's ongoing research into interactive performance ecosystems, where the performer's movements influence sound, light and video.

"Since each of us was several, there was already quite a crowd."
Deleuze/Guatarri

Two Body Orchestra is a hydrid concert/dance performance, centering around our bodies as multitudes — as networks of organs, impulses, technologies, and fictions — as orchestras in and of themselves.

We blur the distinctions between bodies and technologies to the point where even very subtle movements — breathing, tiny shifts of posture — influence and create the sound space.

Two Body Orchestra is the outcome of Roosna & Flak's ongoing research into connecting sound and movement with the help of sensor technology. In this performance every sound is produced by the performers in real time.

We are balancing on the borders of magic and science, leaving a space for intensity, vulnerability and wonder, inviting the audience to notice and create their own stories.

A: May I lay my heart at your feet?
B: Only if you don't make a mess on the floor
Heiner Müller

In Prime Mover Roosna and Flak deal with movement as both cause and effect, freedom as well as inevitability. A Prime Mover is an impulse to do something. It is also the giant engine that we are all a part of, a machinery consisting of environment, technology, history, sensations and dreams. We try to find our way in all of this. We look, we listen, we touch, we think. Occasionally we arrive to an illusion of certainty, but then reality shifts and we are lost. Again.

The audience is invited into a breathing, living universe with no real beginning and no real end, where play and seriousness merge, and where thought and movement are one and the same.